I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
HINNAH MIAN
HINNAH MIAN
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian I loved each and every one of your faces.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian Tear me open and rest inside me.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian For once I want to be something that lasts.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian I’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian I am unbearably human.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian Read the scars on my body like braille, for I no longer know how to tell a story that belongs deeply to me but is no longer mine.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian Living is not living when I am living without you.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian
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Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam SmithAdam Smith Mister, I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man, and i believe in a promised land.
Bruce SpringsteenBruce Springsteen To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
MenciusMencius Ocean separates lands, not souls.
Munia KhanMunia Khan They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon